Dent
Dent (dent) , noun
[A variant of Dint.]
1.
A stroke; a blow. [Obsolete]
That dent of thunder.
2.
A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation.
A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of butter.
Dent , transitive verb
To make a dent upon; to indent.
The houses dented with bullets.
Dent , noun
[French, from Latin dens, dentis, tooth. See Tooth.]
(Machinery) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. — Knight